Scintillations 2015Quiz Prelims

• Prelims will consist of 40 questions.

• Each question carries 1 point.

• Attempt everything…..your guesses may be right!

• Quizmaster is GOD.

Prelims - Written Round

Q1

• X (1830-1901) was born in Chittoor in the then North Arcot district of Madras Presidency. His father, P. Veeraraghava Iyer, had served as the Deputy Collector of Thirunelveli. X grew up to be an Indian lawyer and philanthropist who was best known as the founder of the X charities. Today, it has grown to become one of the most famous chain of institutions in Chennai.

ID X.

Q2X (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer, satirist, songwriter and music director. X is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody popular hits by other artists. Since his first song debuted in 1976, he has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide and has performed more than 1,000 live shows. He is only the third artist after Michael Jackson and Madonna to have a top 40 single in each decade since the 1980s.

X also portrays Isaac Newton in the ‘Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye’ ERB video.

Some of X’s more contemporary songs include ;

- Tacky (Parody of ‘Happy’) - Weird Crimes (Parody of ‘Blurred Lines’)- Inactive (Parody of ‘Radioactive’) ID X.

Q3

ID the person in this Google Doodle.

Q4

X Studios released the teaser trailer for Y in January 2015. It is shown below.

ID X and Y.

Q5

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar. The opening and the closing matches are to be held in the Lusail Iconic Stadium (Still under construction) located in the city of Lusail. Lusail is located about 23 km north of the city centre of Doha, just north of the West Bay Lagoon.

So, presently, what is a major problem with the city of Lusail ?

Q6In the Ramayana, Lord Rama and his army of Vanaras were at a loss to find a way across the ocean to Lanka. On the advice of Vibhishana, Rama prayed to Varuna, the god of the sea, to help them with their endeavour.

After three days and three nights of meditation, there was no sign of Varuna who saw Rama's patience and politeness as weakness. Angered, Rama mounted a potent arrow on his bow and aimed it at the ocean. He was stopped by Lakshmana, who was worried about the plight of the creatures residing in the ocean. However, since the arrow had already been mounted, it had to be discharged. So, Hanuman advised Rama to fire it in the opposite direction. Rama shot the arrow and it landed somewhere in North-western India.

According to Hindu myth, the result of the arrow touching the ground at this point caused the formation of what ?

Q7This is an incomplete list of people who have portrayed a certain character on screen. Certain actors who have famously donned the role have not been included. This character holds the record for being played by the most number of actors.

Basil Rathbone Leonard Nimoy Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Peter O Toole John Cleese Christopher LeeSir Ian McKellen

ID the character.

Q8Marvel Phase Two Movies -

• Iron Man 3 - Stark cuts off Aldrich Killian's arm • Thor: The Dark World - Loki creates an illusion of Thor's

hand getting severed from his arm• Captain America : The Winter Soldier - The WS has a

metallic arm • GOTG - Gamora breaks Groot's arm • Avengers : AoU - Ultron gets angry at Klaw and cuts his

arm off

There is an unusual pattern of characters losing their arms in recent Marvel movies. Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios and Entertainment, has admitted this is a reference/homage to X, where both the protagonist and the antagonist lose their arms. X is a very popular and successful science fiction film franchise.

ID X.

Q9The US space agency recently revealed an image of Pluto’s moon, Charon, taken by the New Horizons probe. The photo revealed a dark region near the north pole of the moon.

“In Charon’s north polar region, a dark marking prominent in New Horizons’ approach images is now seen to have a diffuse boundary, suggesting it is a thin deposit of dark material,” said NASA about this strange area.

The region has been officially named X, after an evil fictional kingdom which appears in a famous book series by Y.

Q10 Bribery is recognized as a pervasive problem in India, with a 2007 report by an anti-corruption organization ranking India in 87th place on its Corruption Perceptions Index.

In 2007, a non-profit organization called ‘5th Pillar’ unveiled a new means for Indians to register their refusal to participate in bribery. Closely patterned after the nation's fifty rupee notes, these documents instead featured anti-corruption slogans "Eliminate corruption at all levels" and "I promise to neither accept nor give bribe.” These enabled citizens to register their opposition to illegal bribery requests in a tangible way.

This concept was adopted by other countries like Yemen, Mexico, Ghana and Nepal.

Put Funda.

Q11

22. Connect and FITB

The SunTiu, Germanic God of WarFreya, Norse God of LoveThe MoonSaturn, Roman God of AgricultureOdin, Chief God in Norse myth______________

Q12X is a city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey and the capital of X Province. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters above sea level, near the confluence of the X River and the Tigris. X has a local airport and a military airbase, which was used for transit of aircraft and helicopters in some search and rescue operations in the Gulf War.

In 2009, the mayor of X, Huseyin Kalkan, filed a case against Y, the director of the movie Z, for naming the protagonist of Z after X without the government's permission. Kalkan blamed Z for an increasing number of female suicides and crimes in X.

Y argued that the lead protagonist of Z had been appearing in media since 1939 and hadn't had any action taken so far till then and could not have possibly been named after the town of X.

Z is a critically acclaimed film produced in 2008 and is highly regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st Century.

ID X, Z and Y.

Q13 Identify the two companies which have

entered into a partnership.

Q14 X is an art form which began to develop in the early 20th century, and began to gain popularity in its later part.

During WW2, propoganda films such as Momotarō no Umiwashi (1943) and Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei (1945) were made, the latter being the first X feature film. During the 1970s, X developed further, separating itself from its Western roots, and developing distinct genres.

ID X.

Q15

Duolingo is a free language-learning platform that includes an app and a language proficiency asessment center.

On 21 July, 2015, Duolingo announced that they would be offering X as a new language to learn. They also released a poster to commemorate this (On next slide).

ID X.

Q16

X is the name of the final episode of the second season of the HBO television series, Game of Thrones. It is written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and is directed by Alan Taylor.

X received highly positive reviews. This episode received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or a Special. It also won for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

The title of the episode, X, means ‘All Men Must Die’. ID X.

Q17 The circle in the middle in which the word X resides is topped with a two-bar cross. This is a variant of the Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) logo and is inspired by the Cross of Lorraine, which was carried by the Knights Templar into the Crusades in the 14th Century. The dots with four triangles radiating outwards resemble the cross pattée which is also associated with the Knights Templar, as well as with the German military and the Freemasons.

The above paragraph describes a subtle but well known design found on the top of Xs.

ID X.

Q18

ID the effect demonstrated in the video on the next slide.

Q19 The origin of the expression '____ ____ X ' is surprisingly literal.

The English dramatist John Dennis (1657-1734) invented a new method of simulating the sound of X as a theatrical sound effect and used it in his unsuccessful play Appius and Virginia. Shortly after his play came to the end of its disappointingly short run after the theatre removed it, he heard the same X effects used at a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the same theater. Dennis was understandably furious. ‘Damn them!’, he fumed, ‘they will not let my play run, but they ____ ____ X ! '.

This expression is used even today when an individual copies the idea of another individual and uses it to his/her advantage without the consent of the former individual.

Identify the expression.

Q20A recent Kickstarter campaign went viral on the net. Its goal was to develop a font based on the handwriting of a famous personality.

ID the personality.

(Pic on next slide)

Q21Blended is a 2014 American romantic adventure comedy film directed by Frank Coraci and starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in the lead roles. The film was released on May 23, 2014 to largely negative reviews among critics but did well at the box office and grossed approximately $14,000,000.

The film also marked the acting debut of X. X, who is well established in a very different field, makes a cameo in a scene where the protagonists go to South Africa for a holiday.

Who is X ?

Q22Symptoms of this include discomfort upon movement of the Radial Styloid and the Thumb. The diagnosis is often bilateral extensor pollicis longus tendinitis of the thumb. This is caused due to excessive usage of X. The treatment usually consists of non steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs and complete abstinence from using X.

How is this contemporary lifestyle disease commonly known ?

Q23

When Billie Jean King was first learning about tennis, she said her coach explained a very peculiar aspect of the game. Being unable to find any recurring pattern, she told herself “Oh my god, What is this sport?”

This system is still in use today, and its origins are not clear. Identify this practice.

Q24

Q24

This is the Zambia coat of arms. What does the black and white represent ?

Q25According to various character histories, he obtained this item from his abusive father who would employ it in a perverse nightly ‘game’ that always ended with a beating. This would instill in him, his lifelong struggle with free will and his eventual inability to make choices on his own. This also reflected in other facets of his life as he always staged events to happen at 10:22 PM.

Contrary to his depiction in mainstream film, this character was ‘created’ using acid and not by oil.

The creator of this character said that he was inspired by RL Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’.

Which character ?

Q26

Gangnam Style, the hugely popular song by PSY, holds the record for the most number of views on YouTube.

In November 2014, the video page of Gangnam Style faced a peculiar problem. This caused YouTube to temporarily take the video offline and rectify it. What was the problem and how was it rectified?

Q27“It was a wild and triumphant moment and a good omen as the Dodgers headed to the playoffs. Burke, waiting on deck, did an X. It seemed like the right thing to do.” This is an account given by journalist John Mooallem describing two Los Angeles Dodger players after the team qualified to the playoffs in 1977. This is widely regarded as the first instance of an X. Other theories include basketball great Magic Johnson inventing this at Michigan State University.

In the 1980s this was used as a symbol of gay pride by many San Francisco residents. In the United States, there is a private initiative to celebrate the third thursday of April as National X Day.

ID X.

Q28X is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith extends about 3000 feet from base to summit along its tallest face, and is one of the world’s favourite challenges for rock climbers and BASE jumpers. (Picture on next slide) ID X and and its recent rise to fame in tech circles.

Q29Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill near the village of Fussen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commisioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out for his personal fortune. The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king but it was opened to the public after his death.

The castle has been praised for its architectural beauty and has appeared in numerous movies over the years. It is also the inspiration for the X castle located at Anaheim, California.

The X castle is widely popular among children and appears on the Y logo and associated Y produced media.

ID the company Y.

Q30The X scene in the movie Y is considered one of the most iconic moments in the entire Y franchise and is extensively referenced in popular culture.

Z, who directed Y, is said to have got the idea for the scene while listening to the band ‘Earth, Fire and Water’ on high volume in his car and witnessing the loud music having a strange effect on a particular object in the car.

However, the special effects producer for the film, Michael Lantieri, found himself at a total loss on how to realistically recreate the effects in the scene. Neither CGI nor 'Wave Tank Generators’ were able to do the job.

Lantieri only found his solution while playing a guitar the day before the shoot of the scene. He attached a guitar string from the car to a hole underneath the ground where a stuntman plucked it, thus finally managing to recreate the effect.

ID X, Y and Z.

Q31 X is an American R&B and hip hop recording artist, songwriter, businessman , and record producer. He has since founded two successful record labels.

X is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice. X has had four songs certified as 3x platinum, three songs certified as 2x platinum, more than ten songs certified as 1x platinum and more than ten songs certified as gold in digital sales. X has sung songs in other languages including Tamil, Hindi and Spanish.

X is merely his stage name. His real name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara X Thiam.

ID X.

Q32What is being referenced in this xkcd

comic ?

Q33“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send twoof her sons into the unknown.In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.”

This is an excerpt from an official US Government document dated July 18, 1969. It talks about the death of Armstrong and Aldrin. Put Funda.

Q34The Geodata Agency of X recently recreated the entire country in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale. It’s one of the biggest Minecraft creations ever, made up of about 4000 billion bricks taking up 1 terabyte of data. It was ingeniously built using the agency’s 3D elevation model and was meant to be used as a teaching tool.

Of course, players almost immediately began blowing it up.

They weren’t supposed to be able to. The Geodata Agency disabled the ability to use dynamite but neglected to disable the minecart with the dynamite item. According to The Register, players discovered this, set off explosives in several X towns, and built American tanks and flags on top of the ruins.

ID X.

Q35Put Funda.

Q36The origins of the name of the song X by the band Y came about when Y was at a Frank Zappa concert in Switzerland. Someone in the audience shot a Roman candle into the ceiling mid-show, causing a massive fire. There were no injuries, but the building burned down to the ground. As the members of Y sat in the nearby hotel room while firefighters tried to thwart the flames, they noticed Lake Geneva was completely engulfed in a foggy haze and that there was X.

ID X and Y.

Q37William Patrick ______ was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of Alois ____, Jr and his Irish-born wife Bridget Dowling.

More importantly, William Patrick _____ was the nephew of X. William later moved to Germany and later emigrated to the United States.

During WW2, William enlisted and served in the US army as a Pharmacist and was wounded in action. He was awarded the Purple Heart and was later discharged in 1947.

The fact that William fought against the Axis forces is very ironic.

Why ? And also, who was his uncle (X) ?

Q38

What is this ?

Answers- Written Round

Q1

• X (1830-1901) was born in Chittoor in the then North Arcot district of Madras Presidency. His father, P. Veeraraghava Iyer, had served as the Deputy Collector of Thirunelveli. X grew up to be an Indian lawyer and philanthropist who was best known as the founder of the X charities. Today, it has grown to become one of the most famous chain of institutions in Chennai.

ID X.

• X - Pennathur Subramaniar,

• Founder of PS Educational Trust

Q2X (born October 23, 1959) is an American singer, satirist, songwriter and music director. X is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody popular hits by other artists. Since his first song debuted in 1976, he has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide and has performed more than 1,000 live shows. He is only the third artist after Michael Jackson and Madonna to have a top 40 single in each decade since the 1980s.

X also portrays Isaac Newton in the ‘Isaac Newton vs Bill Nye’ ERB video.

Some of X’s more contemporary songs include ;

- Tacky (Parody of ‘Happy’) - Weird Crimes (Parody of ‘Blurred Lines’)- Inactive (Parody of ‘Radioactive’) ID X.

• X - ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic

Q3

ID the person in this Google Doodle.

• Ayrton Senna

Q4

X Studios released the teaser trailer for Y in January 2015. It is shown below.

ID X and Y.

X - Ant-Man Y- Marvel Studios

Q5

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to be held in Qatar. The opening and the closing matches are to be held in the Lusail Iconic Stadium (Still under construction) located in the city of Lusail. Lusail is located about 23 km north of the city centre of Doha, just north of the West Bay Lagoon.

So, presently, what is a major problem with the city of Lusail ?

The city of Lusail doesn’t exist yet !

Q6In the Ramayana, Lord Rama and his army of Vanaras were at a loss to find a way across the ocean to Lanka. On the advice of Vibhishana, Rama prayed to Varuna, the god of the sea, to help them with their endeavour.

After three days and three nights of meditation, there was no sign of Varuna who saw Rama's patience and politeness as weakness. Angered, Rama mounted a potent arrow on his bow and aimed it at the ocean. He was stopped by Lakshmana, who was worried about the plight of the creatures residing in the ocean. However, since the arrow had already been mounted, it had to be discharged. So, Hanuman advised Rama to fire it in the opposite direction. Rama shot the arrow and it landed somewhere in North-western India.

According to Hindu myth, the result of the arrow touching the ground at this point caused the formation of what ?

Thar Desert

Q7This is an incomplete list of people who have portrayed a certain character on screen. Certain actors who have famously donned the role have not been included. This character holds the record for being played by the most number of actors.

Basil Rathbone Leonard Nimoy Roger Moore Christopher Plummer Peter O Toole John Cleese Christopher LeeSir Ian McKellen

ID the character.

Sherlock Holmes

Q8Marvel Phase Two Movies -

• Iron Man 3 - Stark cuts off Aldrich Killian's arm • Thor: The Dark World - Loki creates an illusion of Thor's

hand getting severed from his arm• Captain America : The Winter Soldier - The WS has a

metallic arm • GOTG - Gamora breaks Groot's arm • Avengers : AoU - Ultron gets angry at Klaw and cuts his

arm off

There is an unusual pattern of characters losing their arms in recent Marvel movies. Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios and Entertainment, has admitted this is a reference/homage to X, where both the protagonist and the antagonist lose their arms. X is a very popular and successful science fiction film franchise.

ID X.

X - Star Wars

Q9The US space agency recently revealed an image of Pluto’s moon, Charon, taken by the New Horizons probe. The photo revealed a dark region near the north pole of the moon.

“In Charon’s north polar region, a dark marking prominent in New Horizons’ approach images is now seen to have a diffuse boundary, suggesting it is a thin deposit of dark material,” said NASA about this strange area.

The region has been officially named X, after an evil fictional kingdom which appears in a famous book series by Y.

X- Mordor (LOTR)Y- JRR Tolkien

Q10 Bribery is recognized as a pervasive problem in India, with a 2007 report by an anti-corruption organization ranking India in 87th place on its Corruption Perceptions Index.

In 2007, a non-profit organization called ‘5th Pillar’ unveiled a new means for Indians to register their refusal to participate in bribery. Closely patterned after the nation's fifty rupee notes, these documents instead featured anti-corruption slogans "Eliminate corruption at all levels" and "I promise to neither accept nor give bribe.” These enabled citizens to register their opposition to illegal bribery requests in a tangible way.

This concept was adopted by other countries like Yemen, Mexico, Ghana and Nepal.

Put Funda.

Zero Rupee Note

Q11

22. Connect and FITB

The SunTiu, Germanic God of WarFreya, Norse God of LoveThe MoonSaturn, Roman God of AgricultureOdin, Chief God in Norse myth______________

The days of the week are named after these gods; Thor

Q12X is a city in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey and the capital of X Province. It lies on a plateau, 540 meters above sea level, near the confluence of the X River and the Tigris. X has a local airport and a military airbase, which was used for transit of aircraft and helicopters in some search and rescue operations in the Gulf War.

In 2009, the mayor of X, Huseyin Kalkan, filed a case against Y, the director of the movie Z, for naming the protagonist of Z after X without the government's permission. Kalkan blamed Z for an increasing number of female suicides and crimes in X.

Y argued that the lead protagonist of Z had been appearing in media since 1939 and hadn't had any action taken so far till then and could not have possibly been named after the town of X.

Z is a critically acclaimed film produced in 2008 and is highly regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st Century.

ID X, Z and Y.

X - Batman !!Y - Christopher NolanZ - The Dark Knight

Q13 Identify the two companies which have

entered into a partnership.

Mozilla and Yahoo!

Q14 X is an art form which began to develop in the early 20th century, and began to gain popularity in its later part.

During WW2, propoganda films such as Momotarō no Umiwashi (1943) and Momotarō: Umi no Shinpei (1945) were made, the latter being the first X feature film. During the 1970s, X developed further, separating itself from its Western roots, and developing distinct genres.

ID X.

X - Anime

Q15

Duolingo is a free language-learning platform that includes an app and a language proficiency asessment center.

On 21 July, 2015, Duolingo announced that they would be offering X as a new language to learn. They also released a poster to commemorate this (On next slide).

ID X.

X - Klingon, A fictional language in Star Trek

Q16

X is the name of the final episode of the second season of the HBO television series, Game of Thrones. It is written by series co-creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, and is directed by Alan Taylor.

X received highly positive reviews. This episode received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Miniseries, Movie, or a Special. It also won for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.

The title of the episode, X, means ‘All Men Must Die’. ID X.

Valar Morghulis

Q17 The circle in the middle in which the word X resides is topped with a two-bar cross. This is a variant of the Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) logo and is inspired by the Cross of Lorraine, which was carried by the Knights Templar into the Crusades in the 14th Century. The dots with four triangles radiating outwards resemble the cross pattée which is also associated with the Knights Templar, as well as with the German military and the Freemasons.

The above paragraph describes a subtle but well known design found on the top of Xs.

ID X.

Q18

ID the effect demonstrated in the video on the next slide.

The Magnus Effect

Q19 The origin of the expression '____ ____ X ' is surprisingly literal.

The English dramatist John Dennis (1657-1734) invented a new method of simulating the sound of X as a theatrical sound effect and used it in his unsuccessful play Appius and Virginia. Shortly after his play came to the end of its disappointingly short run after the theatre removed it, he heard the same X effects used at a performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth at the same theater. Dennis was understandably furious. ‘Damn them!’, he fumed, ‘they will not let my play run, but they ____ ____ X ! '.

This expression is used even today when an individual copies the idea of another individual and uses it to his/her advantage without the consent of the former individual.

Identify the expression.

“Stealing one’s thunder”

Q20A recent Kickstarter campaign went viral on the net. Its goal was to develop a font based on the handwriting of a famous personality.

ID the personality.

(Pic on next slide)

Albert Einstein

Q21Blended is a 2014 American romantic adventure comedy film directed by Frank Coraci and starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in the lead roles. The film was released on May 23, 2014 to largely negative reviews among critics but did well at the box office and grossed approximately $14,000,000.

The film also marked the acting debut of X. X, who is well established in a very different field, makes a cameo in a scene where the protagonists go to South Africa for a holiday.

Who is X ?

X - Dale Steyn

Q22Symptoms of this include discomfort upon movement of the Radial Styloid and the Thumb. The diagnosis is often bilateral extensor pollicis longus tendinitis of the thumb. This is caused due to excessive usage of X. The treatment usually consists of non steroidal anti -inflammatory drugs and complete abstinence from using X.

How is this contemporary lifestyle disease commonly known ?

X - Whatsapp; Whatsappitis

Q23

When Billie Jean King was first learning about tennis, she said her coach explained a very peculiar aspect of the game. Being unable to find any recurring pattern, she told herself “Oh my god, What is this sport?”

This system is still in use today, and its origins are not clear. Identify this practice.

The Tennis points system

Q24

Q24

This is the Zambia coat of arms. What does the black and white represent ?

Victoria Falls

Q25According to various character histories, he obtained this item from his abusive father who would employ it in a perverse nightly ‘game’ that always ended with a beating. This would instill in him, his lifelong struggle with free will and his eventual inability to make choices on his own. This also reflected in other facets of his life as he always staged events to happen at 10:22 PM.

Contrary to his depiction in mainstream film, this character was ‘created’ using acid and not by oil.

The creator of this character said that he was inspired by RL Stevenson’s ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’.

Which character ?

Harvey Dent/ Two-Face

Q26

Gangnam Style, the hugely popular song by PSY, holds the record for the most number of views on YouTube.

In November 2014, the video page of Gangnam Style faced a peculiar problem. This caused YouTube to temporarily take the video offline and rectify it. What was the problem and how was it rectified?

The YouTube view counter used a 32-bit Int variable to store its data. The number of

views of Gangnam Style exceeded 2,147,483,647 and thus the counter crashed.

This forced YouTube to change it from a 32-bit Int Variable to a 64-bit one.

Q27“It was a wild and triumphant moment and a good omen as the Dodgers headed to the playoffs. Burke, waiting on deck, did an X. It seemed like the right thing to do.” This is an account given by journalist John Mooallem describing two Los Angeles Dodger players after the team qualified to the playoffs in 1977. This is widely regarded as the first instance of an X. Other theories include basketball great Magic Johnson inventing this at Michigan State University.

In the 1980s this was used as a symbol of gay pride by many San Francisco residents. In the United States, there is a private initiative to celebrate the third thursday of April as National X Day.

ID X.

X - High Five

Q28X is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith extends about 3000 feet from base to summit along its tallest face, and is one of the world’s favourite challenges for rock climbers and BASE jumpers. (Picture on next slide) ID X and and its recent rise to fame in tech circles.

X - El Capitan

Apple named their recent OS X upgrade as El Capitan. This follows their pattern of naming

major OS X updates after places in California.

Q29Neuschwanstein Castle is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill near the village of Fussen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commisioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out for his personal fortune. The palace was intended as a personal refuge for the reclusive king but it was opened to the public after his death.

The castle has been praised for its architectural beauty and has appeared in numerous movies over the years. It is also the inspiration for the X castle located at Anaheim, California.

The X castle is widely popular among children and appears on the Y logo and associated Y produced media.

ID the company Y.

Y- Walt Disney Company

Q30The X scene in the movie Y is considered one of the most iconic moments in the entire Y franchise and is extensively referenced in popular culture.

Z, who directed Y, is said to have got the idea for the scene while listening to the band ‘Earth, Fire and Water’ on high volume in his car and witnessing the loud music having a strange effect on a particular object in the car.

However, the special effects producer for the film, Michael Lantieri, found himself at a total loss on how to realistically recreate the effects in the scene. Neither CGI nor 'Wave Tank Generators’ were able to do the job.

Lantieri only found his solution while playing a guitar the day before the shoot of the scene. He attached a guitar string from the car to a hole underneath the ground where a stuntman plucked it, thus finally managing to recreate the effect.

ID X, Y and Z.

X - T-Rex Entrance/ Water Rippling Scene

Y - Jurassic Park

Z- Steven Spielberg

Q31 X is an American R&B and hip hop recording artist, songwriter, businessman , and record producer. He has since founded two successful record labels.

X is the first solo artist to hold both the number one and two spots simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 charts twice. X has had four songs certified as 3x platinum, three songs certified as 2x platinum, more than ten songs certified as 1x platinum and more than ten songs certified as gold in digital sales. X has sung songs in other languages including Tamil, Hindi and Spanish.

X is merely his stage name. His real name is Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara X Thiam.

ID X.

Akon

Q32What is being referenced in this xkcd

comic ?

Monty Hall Problem

Q33“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send twoof her sons into the unknown.In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.”

This is an excerpt from an official US Government document dated July 18, 1969. It talks about the death of Armstrong and Aldrin. Put Funda.

This was to be President Nixon’s speech if Armstrong and Aldrin had died on the moon.

Q34The Geodata Agency of X recently recreated the entire country in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale. It’s one of the biggest Minecraft creations ever, made up of about 4000 billion bricks taking up 1 terabyte of data. It was ingeniously built using the agency’s 3D elevation model and was meant to be used as a teaching tool.

Of course, players almost immediately began blowing it up.

They weren’t supposed to be able to. The Geodata Agency disabled the ability to use dynamite but neglected to disable the minecart with the dynamite item. According to The Register, players discovered this, set off explosives in several X towns, and built American tanks and flags on top of the ruins.

ID X.

Denmark

Q35Put Funda.

This is Queen Elizabeth doing the Nazi Salute when she was 10 years old. Caused quite a

controversy.

Q36The origins of the name of the song X by the band Y came about when Y was at a Frank Zappa concert in Switzerland. Someone in the audience shot a Roman candle into the ceiling mid-show, causing a massive fire. There were no injuries, but the building burned down to the ground. As the members of Y sat in the nearby hotel room while firefighters tried to thwart the flames, they noticed Lake Geneva was completely engulfed in a foggy haze and that there was X.

ID X and Y.

X - Smoke On The Water Y- Deep Purple

Q37William Patrick ______ was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of Alois ____, Jr and his Irish-born wife Bridget Dowling.

More importantly, William Patrick _____ was the nephew of X. William later moved to Germany and later emigrated to the United States.

During WW2, William enlisted and served in the US army as a Pharmacist and was wounded in action. He was awarded the Purple Heart and was later discharged in 1947.

The fact that William fought against the Axis forces is very ironic.

Why ? And also, who was his uncle (X) ?

His full name was William Patrick Hitler and his uncle was none other than Adolf Hitler.

Q38

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Munich Air Disaster Clock

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